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New comment by BearOso in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

BearOso — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:39:10 +0000

People don't want to pay for it. It's fine when you can buy a monthly plan and get lots of usage at the company's loss, but that's not sustainable.

Once everyone has to pay enough for the usage to just break even, it's going to be a shitshow. And what's worse, they'll have to make up for all the debt they're accumulating now, so even pricier.

Basically, individuals will only stay at the current massive discount. Corporations that are paying token costs right now are dialing back as they realize it's not worth the expense.

We are going to have an AI crash, and the only thing left are going to be the efficient on-device or local models, which are already starting to bridge the gap.

New comment by BearOso in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

BearOso — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:52:25 +0000

Not just significantly weaker. The Librem 5 uses the Cortex-A53 low-end ARM designs from 2012, and that particular NXP chip is not among the better implementations. The 3GB of RAM is anemic and becomes a greater restriction as time goes on. Many features simply haven't been implemented (most of the sensors) and those that have been that are technically difficult (i.e. camera) provide only a bare experience.

If we're honest about it, the Librem 5 is not something to use as your main phone, it's a toy to experiment with.

New comment by BearOso in "How to Spot AI Writing"

BearOso — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:02:32 +0000

I like how this article pokes fun by not only using the tropes it describes sarcastically, but then adding subtext that AI never would. It also uses alliteration, grouping synonyms that use similar sounds, another playful literary device that LLMs don't get.

New comment by BearOso in "Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4"

BearOso — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:19:45 +0000

What stuck out to me with that sentence was that a competent manager can determine productivity by looking at what the developer produced, easily and quickly. If the person has no clue what they're looking at and needs this software then they're not qualified.

New comment by BearOso in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

BearOso — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:33:55 +0000

Yeah, but a lot of hard work is done by those libraries. Interaction with external interfaces would go through the tools API, which I imagine would all use the same type of code that they could focus on fixing quickly.

New comment by BearOso in "Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)"

BearOso — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:09:16 +0000

I think part of this is the mach bands illusion. We perceive some darkening at the transition between shades and think we have to replicate it in rendering. But we really don't because the brain creates the effect, so artificially adding it makes it really exaggerated.

New comment by BearOso in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

BearOso — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:04:28 +0000

> Rust does this automatically.

A garbage collected language does this automatically. Rust still requires thinking about and tracking memory lifecycles, but the borrow checker will complain and keep you from doing it wrong. That's why LLMs like Rust. It gives immediate feedback on what to fix. By-default constant reference parameters helps prevent major performance problems.

New comment by BearOso in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

BearOso — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:39:52 +0000

It's been double-stable since early 2025 (version 3.2), so it's weird that Ubuntu doesn't have it when even Debian does. I've seen a couple projects holding back on the upgrade because of that.

With the way the software ecosystem works now, a lot of projects just include a copy or submodule because it's self-contained and a good candidate for it. It dynamically loads most dependencies, so it's pretty light-weight, considering. The whole static linking licensing problem is gone now, too.

New comment by BearOso in "The US grocery slowdown is real"

BearOso — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:03:51 +0000

The article is from Bain Capital. Of course they're going to ignore the obvious reason and blame something else. They raised prices more than people are willing to pay. Unlimited profit growth can't exist.

New comment by BearOso in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

BearOso — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:04:33 +0000

Nedry doesn't have a camera on his end, and he's talking through a headset. Maybe guy at the harbor just knows where the closed circuit camera is? Since it's just quicktime anyway, I guess we'll never know what they intended it to be unless someone asks the director.

New comment by BearOso in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

BearOso — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:44:50 +0000

I think Fabien is misinterpreting the part which he sees as "video conferencing." Nedry is talking to a guy on a regular phone line. He's just watching a security camera feed from the dock where the guy is.

New comment by BearOso in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

BearOso — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:31:23 +0000

Yeah, this particular experiment doesn't reveal much because the Nvidia driver is a black box. We know in the past it used its "composition pipeline" in Wayland situations, and that was a particularly noticeable increase in latency. Plus, for a while the Nvidia driver also was stuck on software cursors. And even on the DRM path the big two compositors only updated input once every frame, which was the reason for it "to have much worse input lag."

edit: I should also point out the mouse acceleration curve, which if you don't fix it is different between X11 and Wayland compositors. That really messes up the "feel" of things.

New comment by BearOso in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

BearOso — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:13:49 +0000

> Their internal representations are so cryptic and complex that even the top AI researchers don't really know how they work or what their limits are. No one is going to take you seriously as a rando HN user if you're claiming to know better than them.

We know exactly how they work. When we say they're impossible to analyze, i.e. for particular traits like this, it means that the data model is so big that tracing it would be logistically impossible because of the scale involved and time constraints.

For comparison, suppose you tried to analyze all the nooks and crannies of the Amazon watershed to find out why a particular rock appears at the delta. You could follow it back to the exact tributary, but it'll take forever, and is it worth the effort when you're going to start from scratch with the next rock?

New comment by BearOso in "Don't you mean extinct?"

BearOso — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:39:56 +0000

It's marketing. The big AI companies know what they're doing and are trying to drive adoption with FOMO. Some people bought into the idea early on and feel self-important. Meanwhile, using AI is so easy that it's tantamount to pushing a button, because that's the whole point of it: to make things easy to do. You can pick it up in half an hour, so it's impossible to "fall behind," unless you're holding stock when the bubble inevitably crashes.

New comment by BearOso in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

BearOso — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:58:04 +0000

I think putting it in terms of API pricing is oversimplifying disingenuously. Anthropic still hasn't pulled the rug out from under us, so I'm sure it cost a great deal of money once everything comes together, likely surpassing 1.5M. Summarily, they got the result faster, which a group of engineers couldn't do, but at a greater expense.

New comment by BearOso in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

BearOso — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:43:55 +0000

I posted on an older article that I thought it probably cost half a million in API pricing. 165k USD is a lot lower. I wonder what the actual compute cost was. When this first hit the news, Opus 4.7 was brand new and required 6x the compute power per user token vs 4.6. The article says they were using Fable, which is way more expensive.

New comment by BearOso in "Composite Video on the NES: Why's it so wobbly?"

BearOso — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:49:26 +0000

That's probably in an overscan area on most TVs, so it might not even show up.

New comment by BearOso in "Lenovo saying RAM prices may never go back to how they were"

BearOso — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:14:12 +0000

Lenovo has an incentive to say prices will never go down. They need to continue selling right now when prices are high, but customers will wait if they have reason to think they'll go lower.

New comment by BearOso in "Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js"

BearOso — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:39:42 +0000

Backticks ` ` are used to trigger code-style formatting in markdown. Since all the coding AIs are trained almost entirely on github, you see it everywhere in their output. They'll use it even in places where it's supposed to be just plain text, and almost always in git log messages, which by spec have no formatting.

New comment by BearOso in "Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js"

BearOso — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:20:51 +0000

Slack uses this? Thanks for the info. I've never been forced into Slack, so I wasn't aware of that. Either way, it's stupid to use in places it doesn't induce formatting.